> The turbo button on old computers was not an over-clocker, it was > simply a clock-halver.
I'm pretty sure my old 386 would go from 16 to 20 Mhz when I pressed the turbo button though. But obviously clock-halvers were easier to make, since all you needed was a flip-flop (2 NAND gates). > I do remember my girlfriend's father never used the turbo button > because he thought it would hurt the computer. My my have we come far, today computers are 20-30% over-clocked from the factory. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
